A Higher Call
By: by Adam Makos with Larry Alexander
Contributors: Alexander, Larry, 1951-
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780425252864
Subjects: German Aerial operations; Bomber pilots; Aerial Bombing; American Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945; Fighter pilots; Biography; History
Description: This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies over wartime Germany on 21 December 1943 --the American--2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German--2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.